E. T. A. Hoffmann (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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A genius with versatile talents in graphics, music, and theater, E. T. A. Hoffmann first achieved artistic distinction as a musician. He composed symphonies, operettas, sonatas, and the first romantic opera Undine (1816), based on a Nouvelle by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué, and he wrote perceptive, progressive music criticism on Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Don Juan and The Magic Flute, and other musical topics. He also wrote two major novels: Die Elixiere des Teufels:...
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